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by jdwithit 2y ago
Settle down, Beavis. Not everyone is running Linux in a 24/7 production environment. I hear some people even fart around with it at home for fun. I've been in pager rotations for most of the last 20 years so I'm sympathetic t
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by jdwithit 2y ago
I wish I could recall the details better but this was 20+ years ago now. In college I had an internship working at Bose, doing QA on firmware in a new multi CD changer addon to their flagship stereo. We were provided discs of music tracks w
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by jdwithit 2y ago
Yeah the Centralia story is wild. Who knows when the fire might ever go out? It's caught the imagination of many writers over the years, who have either been inspired by it or used it directly as a setting. Mostly in horror/parano
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by jdwithit 2y ago
Agree 100%. Not the most important example, but I used to be heavily into World of Warcraft. The go-to place for discussion of high end play was a forum run by the guild "Elitist Jerks". Everything was there out in the open, to be
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by jdwithit 2y ago
They exist, and are very valuable, but I've never worked at a company that employed even one full time technical writer. If I go on a caffeine bender and write the 20 page doc OP described, nobody is coming back around to clean that up
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by jdwithit 2y ago
> You call a contractor and tell them everything you want done and then ask for an estimate and they tell you, "I don't know. It'll cost what it costs. Every project is different and I won't know until I'm done.&
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by jdwithit 2y ago
I've had a contact in my phone named "The Beast" with phone number 666 for more than 20 years now. Originally came about as a joke for some high school buddies when we were EXTREMELY into Iron Maiden. Now just a dumb easter e
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by jdwithit 2y ago
Get on Maine's level. They have Mexico, Poland (home of Poland Springs!), China, Peru, Norway, Sweden, Denmark... that's not even delving into another dozen or two towns named for foreign cities rather than nations. The history of
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by jdwithit 2y ago
I vividly remember watching Battle Royale with my college roommate, and when it was over, we looked at each other and said "this would be an incredible premise for a video game". This would have been like 2004. We even tried to mo
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by jdwithit 2y ago
Very cool story. Not what I expected to find on HN but glad it was linked! I was born and raised in Massachusetts and know the Zildjian brand, but had absolutely no idea they were based there.
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by jdwithit 2y ago
I mean the patch notes for this issue literally do this, so they seem to be off to a good start.
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by jdwithit 2y ago
Yeah I think this is a good point. Around ~8th grade I got pretty far into making a Final Fantasy 6-inspired JRPG in QBASIC with some friends. Obviously it was not remotely professional quality. But the delta between it and a "real&quo
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by jdwithit 2y ago
I've definitely committed debug messages before. Probably everyone who writes code has at some point. Thankfully it's never been anything TOO embarrassing. These days I try to always do a git diff and search for "print"
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by jdwithit 2y ago
It cuts both ways, though :) My son is obsessed with the Switch Zelda games, Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. You can save at almost any time, plus the game autosaves constantly. He always tries to pull BUT DAD I GOTTA SAVE GIMM
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by jdwithit 2y ago
US 287 between Fort Collins, CO and Laramie, WY is notoriously dangerous and your map certainly bears it out. Click on any random stretch and it is absolutely full of pins :( Crazy because it is a wide open rural highway for the most part w
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by jdwithit 2y ago
I feel like this would be more plausible if the bug hadn't been introduced more than 3 years ago.
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by jdwithit 3y ago
I've never personally used paid Vault but what you said, that they "asked way too much" is the constant refrain I've heard about it. Much like Splunk, it seems like there's an extra zero on the quote for smaller use
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by jdwithit 3y ago
Clicking "parent" on this post a couple times yields some more context. Seems like the claim the throwaway account is making is that IBM pulling Vault into their IBM Cloud offering was the catalyst for relicensing everything. Terr
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by jdwithit 3y ago
Apart from the actual book content, I enjoy your appropriately retro and minimalist web design. It's giving me a huge nostalgia hit. Fond memories of hand crafting my own sites with a 6 inch thick book titled something like "HTML
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by jdwithit 3y ago
Or for a less out-there example, Ken Thompson's classic "Reflections on Trusting Trust". At some point unless you are literally producing all of the hardware and software yourself you have to trust someone . The challenge is
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by jdwithit 3y ago
This still seems orthogonal to the fact that a law was passed requiring them to publish salary bands and they gave the finger to it by publishing a range of $0 to $infinity. Maybe everyone has the title "software engineer" but com
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by jdwithit 3y ago
Netflix literally does (or at least did) this. It's not even a hypothetical. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/90000-to-900000-pay-transpare...
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by jdwithit 3y ago
Looks like the fix is in Mozilla's core UI widget code, nothing specific to Firefox. So yes, it should be fixed in TB too.
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by jdwithit 3y ago
When I was in college (so like... almost as long ago as this bug was filed, yikes!) I spent a lot of time volunteering for Mozilla. I started out doing bug triage for their QA team, which involved things like making sure it was in the prope
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by jdwithit 3y ago
To be honest my job changed during the pandemic so I have not made the trip in several years. Before making my post I went on the Amtrak website and priced out a trip in mid October. It was about $225 each way before tax etc. If you were wi
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by jdwithit 3y ago
I used to take the Amtrak Acela from Boston to NYC a few times a year for business travel and it was very enjoyable. I always looked forward to the ride, which is absolutely not something I would ever say about driving or flying these days.
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by jdwithit 3y ago
This reminds me of our own security team, who as far as I can tell do nothing but run POC's of new security tools. And then maybe once a year actually buy one, generating a ton of work (for others) to replace the very similar tool they
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by jdwithit 3y ago
At least in part, I don't have the time or energy to care anymore. In my 20s I loved reading long form articles on AnandTech about the latest chip or motherboard. Nowadays when the kids are in bed at 9:30 or later and I finally have a
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by jdwithit 3y ago
Extremely relatable post. I worked someplace that had a policy of absolutely never changing your Active Directory username because it was the primary key in like a dozen internal systems. Someone finally made a massive stink about it to HR
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by jdwithit 3y ago
This would have been incredible. But I guess I get the angle of not wanting to risk pissing off the audiophile CTO paying you 10 figures per month. Cause he can TOTALLY hear the difference listening to Dark Side of the Moon on vinyl via Mon

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